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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
Ncwsy Notes.

Ex-Secretary Manning sailed for Eu-
rope on the steamer ARIZONA" Tuesday
morning, lie was accompanied by his
wife and daughter
Capt, James b, Fades died at Nassau,
n, p, on the 9th. lie was the constructor
of the colossal bridge over the Mississippi
at st, Louis, the engineer of the jettles
at the mouth of the Mississippi and the
deviser of the novel substitute for canal
across the isthmus, of Tehuantepec,
The coopers' strike in New York has
resulted in complete failure. The men
have resumed work ON basis which
practically kills the Coopers' Union, The
men dissolve all connection with the
Knights of Labor, and express penitence,
They resume work on lower wages than
they were receiving before the strike.
The Indians in Montana are suffering
greatly from lack of food, and are said to
| be subsisting ON horse flesh.
Ten thousand of the knit goods opera
! tiycs at Cohocs, \. y, are asking for
higher wages. The manufacturers Tues
day refused to confer with committee
OF the Knights of Labor,
1t is reported that asyndicatc, including
Jay Gould, Russell Sage and the Penn
sylvania Railway Company, has been
found to buy the Baltimore and Ohio.
The report that the Northern Cheyen-
hes in Montana We're starving is contra
dicted by the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs.
An Investigation of the Boston and
Providence Railway disaster was begun
Tuesday by the Railway Commissioners.
A movement has been started in New
York and Brooklyn to erect monument
to the late Henry Ward Beecher.
The Car of Russia has narrowly es-
capped injury or death at the hands OF
bomb throwers.
Bad washouts on the North Paclhe
Road have delayed trains for several days
London was enveloped in darkness as
dense as midnight at noon Tuesday.
There was $500, 900 fire in Buffalo
Tuesday. 1t included the destruction oil
the Masonic Hall.
There was another break Tuesday in
the Chicago wheat market.
4 There was 100000 blaze at Raleigh
n. c., Tuesday.
The rumor that Secretary Endicott was
about to resign is contradicted.
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Vermont News.

Editor Stone of the st. ,Iohnsbury
Caledonian and his son have gone to
California on pleasure trip,
The next annual session of the
Vermont conference will be held AT
ST. Johnsbury, beginning April 2l,
Bishop Walden will preside.
The internal revenue records show
that the number of liquor dealers in
Vermont who pay a United States
tax increased from I9i in 1885 to
573 in 1886.
Poor Corbett. He had run with
Mcdowell, fortified with Mcclellan,
charged with Hooker, fought it out
under Grant, and shot Booth ON his
own account, but the talk of Kansas
Legislators was too much for his en-
durance and he is crazy Sioux
City Times.
II don't see how you get so much
news into your paper" said the vii.
lage clergyman to the village editor
"seeing that you have no local re-
porter"
sob q. that's easily explained" re,
piled the editor. "My wife belongs
to three sewing societies in the village
and she has an excellent memory
Boston Courier. -,
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Old, but to the Point.

Fom the Richford Gazette, Jan. 18th.
The Ring crowd down in Windham county are
doing their best to suppress the pucky London.
derry SITTER, which has done the public good
service in exposing the rotten methods of Ring
politicians down there. Last summer the editor
was sued for libel but that didn't have the desir.
ed effect, so couple of weeks ago an old judg.
ment against the editor was bought up by his en-.
emies, and his type and presses attached. The
paper appeared just the same, however, and last
week the current issue of the paper was seized
by an officer before it could be mailed The
plucky editor managed to get out a half sheet in
which he fully exposed the malice and methods
of those who would seal his mouth. Go in, Bro
Shanks, and give them Hail Columbia. Fair play
Is jewel the American people admire and high.
ly prize; and an independent, truthful newspa
paper is as necessary in old Windham as 1t is in
Ring-ridden Franklin. There never was a time
in the history Of the State when there was
greater need for manly and independent news
paper criticism such as the SITTER deals in, aud
we can hardly believe that people of windham
county will fail to come to the support of that
paper. We assure BRO. Maloney that the PEG
pie of this section do stand by US, and we are
daily adding new names. The SITTER Is going
20 live to pay Its compliments over and over a.
gain 10 the whole caucus packing tribe. Ei.l
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
A press dispatch dated at MontDe.

A press dispatch dated at Montpe-
lier March II, says: "Another
sweeping enforcement of the prohibi-
tory law was made here this after
noon, three drug stores being raided
on search and seizure warrants. At
the store of Ira G.. Bascom about
100 gallons of various liquors were
taken. He was last week convicted
of several second offences in selling
liquor. c. Blakely's store was raid
ed and 10 gallons of whisky and a
few bottles of ale taken. Bixby &
Co. were relieved of quite a quantity,
but the proprietor claims that he only
kept it for compromising medicines
and proposes to fight the case. A..
j. Locklin's saloon was searched,
but nothing found. The liquor was
turned over to the town. This is the
first time drug stores were ever raid
ed heIe and there is great difference
of opinion and among lawyers as to
the legality of the seizure"
The funeral of Col. A. B. Jewett,
who died at Jacksonville, Fla. was
held at Swanton last Friday.
The snow is from 10 to 10 feet
deep in front of houses in Wood
stock.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
Letters From The People.
They do approve and support 1t

M. Editor. People hereabouts
ere mighty glad to see the SITTER
again in its full proportions, and APP
parently enjoying vigorous health, af-
ter its brief involuntary retirement
from public view. Without under
taking to give an opinion of the mer-
its of your personal fights, about
which, | know little and care less,
| will say, (and everybody else says
the same), that on all public matters
You have always been on the right
side, fighting valiantly for the people
against monopolies, rings and pot
house politicians, and so deserve the
hearty approval and support of the
common people, whose cause you up
hold. And | will go further and
say that the late attempts to suppress
the SITTER, because of its out spoken
denunciation of political corruption
and political bosses and quacks, has
been transparent sham from the be-
ginning, with no honesty in it, and
no motive except personal revenge.
The pretense of collecting an old debt,
or of whitewashing reputation in
the last stages of moral putrefac-
ton, is nothing but pretense used
in both cases by the same parties for
the same purpose, viz: to kill off a
paper that dares to tell the truth.
And therefore the people side with
you and rejoice that these malicious
efforts to crush the SITTER have fail
ed. Stand by the people and they
will stand by you in your fight against
the caucus-packing ringsters.
A FRIEND.
Jamaica, Mar. II, 1886.
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Echoes from the Press.

The Boston Herald thinks the
hoodlum must 90, in the interest of
public safety.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat
calls Beecher the priest of liberty,
and the Brooklyn Times says, a
"regal soul has passed away"
John Poquette of Newport Centre
left his home four weeks ago to 90
across the mountain to Bedell's mill
near Montgomery Centre to procure
atlidavits in his pension claim. He
has not been heard from since, and it
is feared he has persisted.
Patrick Money of Waterbury, aged
20, fell from his cellar stairs last
week, idjuring his head and spine so
that he died in short time.
A Western View.
1t might just as well as not he I'M
derstoOd first as last The railroad
men of this country are not going to
get any free puffs in the newspapers
after the interstate commerce bill
goes into effect. As soon as the
free-pass system dies, the custom of
referring to Col.-- -, the
general passenger agent of the
4 - railway, as "a talented,
cultured, genial, and popular official
will fall into disrepute. There be nc
genial-no, nor any cultured gentle
men-in the railroad business, unless
they pay for their geniality and theil
culture at regular advertising rates.
Nor will there be any colonies in the
railroad profession on and after the
3lst of March-at least, so far as
we are concerned; every man now en-
joying the title of colonel by virtue of
his ability to issue free railroad
pass, will be degraded to the rank of
a plain mister as soon as this inter-
state commerce bill becomes a living,
breathing, sentient, desolating thing
The grinding monopolists shall be
brought down to the business level of
the average meek and lowly patrons
who stand around out of doors, wait
ing to get into line for their turns at
the advertising window. When they
seek personal notices in the papers
they will have to pay for them, and
when we in turn find it necessary tC
patronize the railroads we will walk
Chicago News.
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Another Terrible Railroad
Accident.
On the Dedham branch Of the
Boston and Providence!
~ Persons Killed and over n 100
Injured!

Another terrible railroad accident
occurred early Monday morning be-
tween Forest Hills and ROslindale,
in the vicinity of Boston, on the Ded-
ham branch of the Boston and Prov
idence railroad. In some respects
this accident exceeds in horror the
recent one at Hartford. The train
was local one and heavily laden.
On approaching the Bussey Park
bridge, a bridge spanning a roadway.
the fourth car left the track and went
over the bridge, four others following
Immediately and falling 80 feet tc
the roadway were completely demol.
ished. The latest reports place the
dead at "a and the injured at 115
The details of the accident are hor
rlbip,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17

The administration said in 1916, that war eNis-
ted by an act of Mexico; but really 1t existed by
a forcibe annexation of Texas.
BY virtue of the discoveries of La Sale, as
early as 1854, France claimed Texas; ceeded 1t
Spain in 1862; repurchased it in 1900. Probably
the United States owned Texas from 1904 to 1919;
but them in the treaty concerning the Floridsa,
relinquished it.
In 1884 Mexico abolished slavery, and Texas
became free territory.
In 1896 Texas declared herself independent,
but she never gained it, and was forcible annex
ed to the T. 5. in 1915, because the south wanted
more slave territory From 1886 to 1874 the sub
ject was sharply discussed for and against annex
alton. In popular vote of New York 10000
majority was given against it, and Massachusetts
sent in 1870 circumstances with 10000 names a
gainst it..
1t was a steal, backed up by the sword. The
history of the domineering, aggressive, vilanous
meanness of the slave power would make as
black chapter in the worlds history as ever was
written Those who enlisted in the Mexican
war fought in an unjust cause. Many of these
same soldiers enlisted in the confederate host to
trample the star spangled bannerin the dust; and
these are the men to get pension instead of the
brave defenders of loyalty and union.
King Cleveland must be a great wonder
genius of marvellous power.
O comrades, somewhere, there's blunder :;
The Rebels are getting the dover.
| Political scenes are enacted
| Most strangely and vastly awry;
And some are so mixed and distracted,
| Their methods we strongly decry.
The slave oligarchy once clustered,
And threatened to rule, or diSsOlve
Round Texas their hopes again clustered,
To have, was a southern resolve.
They argued, discussed, agitated;
Remonstrance was forced in their way;
From Texas to Maine twas debated,
But slave lords would have their own way.
| SO Texas, in form, was united
'Gainst Mexican wish or free-wll;
And brave volunteers We're invited,
| The owners of Texas to kill.
| Again, in our civil contention
They fought 'gainst the Red White and
Blue;
Those twice in the wrong get pension;
There's none for the Loyal and True.
Two wrongs make right, can you see,
sir?
And the Union defenders claim one;
But We the riff-raff, must be sir,
While rebels, distinctions have won.
Say, why, did we fight against treason,
Preserving the Union complete:
0 justice, integrity, reason,
Please patiently bear the defeat.
lis only their way of reforming
We don't understand it you see;
Instead of our raving and storming
Let's calmly abide the decree.
But still, we must linger, and ponder,
And try to make black appear white.
Though such reform is wonder,
Two evils, of course, make right
o dear, still marvel why Cleveland
Should give to rebellion prize;
When others who fought against treason
A pension he fatty denies.
Some nameless, political science,
Evolved by the King on his throne;
o yes, newfangled appliance;
A study to Patriots unknown
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17

How much better are the light and
the flowers, which have surrounded
the remains of Henry Ward Beecher
and have given their cheering infu-
ence to sustain his sorrowing friends
than the blackness and gloom with
which ancient custom has surrounded
the couch of death. How much hap
pier and brighter the world would be
did we thus rob death of one of its
terrors.-Rutland Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
BIRTHS.

In Londonderry, Mar. IL, son to Mr.
Mrs. Leroy Davis.
In Jamaica Mar 10, daughter to Mr..
& Mrs. Herbert Waterman
Also in Jamaica on Mar. II, daughter
to Mr.. & Mrs. lila Howard.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17

When Baby was sick, We gave her CastoriA,
When she was Child, she cried for Css.oris.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoris,
When she had Children. she gave them Csstoria
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
THE WOMAN'S COLUMN.

Miss Mary Booth, the editor of Har-
pers Bazaar, is said to be going to Europe
for rest.
The women of Kansas are registering
in large numbers, to vote under the new
municipal suffrage law.
Ex-Empress Eugene has applied to the
city government of Naples for permission
to enter the hospital as nurse, and care
for the soldiers wounded at MassOwah.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Avery, of the Interior
Department at Washington, has the most
beautiful handwriting among the fifteen
thousand or more clerks employed by the
government. She is. also a clever pen
and-and-ink artist.
SHE DID IT HERSELF.
Men are quite willing that women should
do hundred things which are physically
more laborious than casting vote. The
solicitude some of them express for fear
suffrage may injure the health of women
recalls story told by Miss Eastman.
When school suffrage for women was
still new thing, a Woodworking woman
appeared at the door of the polling place
in country town, to cast her first vote.
local politician instantly hustled up to,
and offered his arm with great galantry to
escort her to the ballot box, saying, LET
me assist you, madam" The woman look
ed at him, and answered:
IF you had been around this morning
at tive o'clock, when l was making the
fire, bringing in wood and water, and get
ting breakfast, might have been glad of
some help; but if it is only about drop
ping this bit of paper into the box that
you want to help me, think can do that
myself" And she did. 4. s. B.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17

Spring stock of Paper Hang
ings just received.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17
MARRIED..
DEATHS.

At Winhall Station, Mar. -, Frank
Baker, aged 80.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17

al Brewster's Patent Rein Holder.
III Your lines are where you put them-nos
4 under horses feet One agent sold I2doz. in
u days, one dealer sold doz- in is DAYS
tel Samples worth si.50 FREE. Write for te-1nx
- 3, e. BREWSTER, Holly, Mich.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-03-17

Having disposed of my Dry
Goods and Clothing, l shall now
pay street attention to
The Portland daily press., 1887-08-31
Convict Labor In ceorala-

A correspondent of the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat is writing that paper some very
interesting and instructive letters on the con-
vict labor system of Georgia. 1t is well
known that convcts are let out in that State
to the highest bidder and are practically un-
der the control of the firm that hires them.
At the present time nearly all of them are
employed on the Midland railroad or In the
Dade coal mines, the latter owned by Sena-
tor Brown. In the mines they are well
treated and nothing in the shape of cruelty
10 allowed. There is good hospital for
those who fall sick and competent medical
attendance. The cost of each of these con-
victs to Senator Brown, including their
board and what he pays the State for them,
is about 65 cents day; and as they do about
as much work as free labor, of course Mr..
Brown is making an exceedingly good thing.
The kind of treatment these men receive
In Senator Browns camp is the exception
and not the rule. AS rule they appear to
be treated with much less consideration than
the lowest of domestic animals. They are
kept at work as long as they are able to
stand up. A physician who made an inves-
tigation at the instance Of the State Legisla
ture found convict at work picking cote
with the bones Of his forearm broken and
not united. Another with an ugly wound in
the anklewhich was greatly infamed and
was threatening the bones of the leg was en-
gagged at the same work. One convict. said
by the oyerseer to be "httle billions" was
found to be in high fever and dangerously
Ill. The hospitals in which the convicts
who got too sick to be forced to work war.
cared for were Of the rude.t Dissertation
Several Of them the doctor describes. One
had no windows at all. The only opening
into 1t was the door and when this was shut
there was no ventilation at all. Another had
several holes sawed out just above the hunks
through which the wind blew and in the
stormy weather the rain beat in There was
no glass In the building and no way TO close
these holes Another was swarming. with
bed bugs and other vermin. OF medical at
tendance there was nothing worthy of the
name. The oyerseer generally decided when
convict was sick and what allied him, and
for the most part prescribed for him as we'll
one OF these overseers said that when he was
unable to decide which of two diseases a
convict had he mixed the remedies for the
TWO diseases and gave him dose of the mix
'uie. Down ON the Midland railroad the
crueitles practiced by the "whipping boss''
nave Deen SO atrocious that Gov. Gordon has
ordered his prosecution. Se,,oraI -
The Portland daily press., 1887-08-31

had complained of their treatment to the
State officers and for this offense they were
stripped and their heads fastened SO as to be
drawn over towards their knees, and then
they were beaten on their backs until the
skin was torn into shreds and the victims
were faint from loss of blood
To the credit Of Gov. Gordon be it said
that the present system OF disposing of the
prison convicts meets his unqualified disap-
proval, and any movement to abolish it will
be given his hearty support. The obstacles to
a change are that a large part OF the contracts
have many years to run yet and the State can
not annul them without the risk of having to
pay heavy damages, and that there is no gen.
eral agreement as to substitute for the pres
ent system Gov. Gordon thinks thateonylcts
might be worked on the roads under State
supervision or on farms carried on for the
purpose OF testing various systems and profits
in different lines of culture and products.
The Portland daily press., 1887-08-31
MuRAT HALSTED.
Tho Cincinnati Editors Adventures
Abroad.
New York World.


Mr. Halsted is one of the most vigorous of
men. He would impress a stranger with the
idea of being reserved and unapproachable,
but with his friends he is chatty, expansive
and almost bOyish in his love of fun. /
think this love of fun and of change of scene
contains the secret of his vigor and youthful
appearance. l have noticed him in num-
Der of London groups and he always stands
out with great prominence, even among the
most noticeable of gatherings. This dashing
Cincinnati editor, who is now ffty-eight
years of age, has today the eyesight of a
young man. He has never worn eyeglasses
He has the air and bearing of manner of
military man. He is tall. broad-shouldered,
very straight, with stout well-rounded fig
ure. His features are clear-cut; his color Is
fresh and clear, indicating high health His
eyes are bright, blue and sparkling. His
nose is Roman; his forehead is high and
broad, q snow-whites,. crisp military mustache
and imperial adorn his alert, misunderstanding
face. Buttoned up in the black frock suit.
under high silk hat, he is seen everywhere
about London. He is always coming or
going somewhere. He has the restless ener-
| gy and force Of young man OF the most in
tense ambition. He comes over to Europe
very often to freshen up his mind and to get
| out of the rutS. He was over here as an OBJ
| server during the late franc0-PruSSlan war,
and if there was to be a new war between
France and Germany am sure that the rest
less Halstead, if he should happen to be in
the United States would take the first steam
er for Europe following the declaration.
heard him tell, the other night the ex-
| perences that he had in the war of 1870. He
! was at Gravelotte and saw as mnch Of that
| battle as any one could see He said that 1t
was all smoke and confusion, however, to an
unprofessional mind. 1t was difficult to tell
| what was taking place, While he was wait
| ing about, Bismark came along riding with
our Phil Sheridan. Halsted called out to
! Sheridan to tell him briefly what had taken
| place. Sheridan did not recognize him until
| he had taken off his hat, and then he said,
Halo, Hastedl What areyou doing here?
| Halsted replied in an off hand way, II am
| just down here looking about. / thought it
might be interesting" At this word "inter-
| esting" Bismark burst out laughing. ST
that is not an American way of putting it."
| said he. $50 you think it is interesting"
| and again he laughed. Bismark treated him
very politely after Sheridan had introduced
| him, but he would not give him permission
| to buy horse, and the editor, footsore and
weary, had to make his way as best he could
to the nearest railway station.
experiences during the war. He said that
he used to be arrested about thirty times q
day. He never had any difficulty with the
| higher German officials. From them he al
ways received courtesy and attention, but
from the subordinates he never received any
thing but incivility and discourtesy